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Channing Tatum, born on April 26, 1980, is a renowned American actor. He gained widespread popularity for his performances in the 'High School Musical' film series and has since showcased his versatile talents in films like '21 Jump Street' and 'Magic Mike'. Tatum is known for his exceptional performances on both film and stage, and has achieved significant success across multiple domains.

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Famous Channing Tatum Quotes

“As much as you can love someone, is as much as you can hate someone. It goes in equal and opposite directions. Like if you love someone so much and they hurt you so bad, then that is as equal as to how much you can have rage for them.”

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“I don't want any sports anymore, except fighting which is the only sport I really watch - whether it's boxing or UFC. I don't know why. I think maybe it's an aspiration I didn't get the chance to explore more, but I don't think my father expected anything from me, I think it's more what I put on myself.”

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“My parents let me find my way and that's how they supported me the entire way.”

Way Parent Let Me My Way

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“I want a career and the thing is you really have to love acting. I didn't just fall into it and it wasn't just something I was good at. I've had to really work at this. I've had to fall on my face time and time again. You get 'no' 99 per cent of the time and a 'yes' just once.”

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“For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great filmmaker, you will not have a great film unless you just get lucky.”

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“There is a lot of underground type of fighting going on and some of it is not safe, it's pretty brutal. But it's absolutely fascinating.”

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“If you're with someone you don't exactly trust then you have to watch yourself and that's the hardest thing for an actor not to do, and not listen to yourself as you're talking.”

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“I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.”

Roles Football Lawyer Necks Thick Playing Football

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“I've got great genetics from parents, and I'm not moaning that I have such a hard life. Trust me; it's worked out so much more in the positive then the negative.”

Hard Parent Negative Trust Me Genetics Hard Life Moaning

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“No matter if you're a man, woman, cat, hamster, you will get lost in Matt Bomer's eyes. I don't know what they are made of outside of dreams and rainbows and amazingness but it truly doesn't matter. And when he sings. It's like God gave with both hands and then grew a third hand and graced him with more.”

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“Channing does a very good impersonation of men at female strip joints.”

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“I think, even a lot of people that make movies forget is that, in my mind, a movie should work with the sound off. You should be able to watch a movie without the sound and understand what's going on. That's your job, to build a series of chronological images that tell the story.”

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“I'm frustrated when I see movies in which I feel like the plot is being told to me instead of shown to me.”

Feels Plot Frustrated

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“I'm not political. I just want America to do well, I want the world to do well. I want everyone to stop fighting.”

World Want Wells America Political Fighting

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“I like vintage stuff. I go through a vintage store and find things that I feel like I fit right into them because of all the years that they've been used.”

Feels Years Used Stuff Fit Stores Vintage Vintage Stuff

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“I think the best thing to try to do is allow your daughter or your son to know that they can come to you for anything. If you can break down that wall so they don't feel embarrassed by telling you things, that's half the battle.”

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“I've always loved movies but everyone loves movies, so I never conceived of the fact that I could actually be in them. In high school I had some friends in the drama department, but they were just doing plays, and I was like, "Eh, I don't really think that that's me." So I just played sports. Then, a bunch of years later, I'm acting.”

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“You can't fake wrestling. We can fake punch, but with wrestling you just have to go ahead and do it. You really need to see the hand hit the face, the head butting and everything.”

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“Comedy doesn't come easy for me. I've only done 2 movies that are really comedy-style films and I have to work at them. And they're just as scary in a way. I hate labeling all these things; comedy, love stories, dark drama, whatever.”

Way Done Stories Film Hate Easy Dark Comedy Style Drama I Hate Scary Love Story Labeling

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“You don't try any less hard on the ones that don't. I've gotten lucky to work with some amazingly talented people that have helped the ones that have worked work. I think you just have to keep doing the stories you love and the characters that you love and are drawn to.”

People Thinking Trying Hard Character Stories Lucky

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“The abuse of prescription pills is a real thing. I understand that there are people that really need them and I understand that there are people that abuse them, and it's just a gray line that unfortunately has to exist.”

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“I do get nervous to act, it kind of depends on what it is really.”

Kind Depends Nervous

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“There are so many great stories and characters out there that you can just keep saying, "Yes," but you've got to eventually make the decision that if it's something you really want then do it for yourself.”

Ifs Want Character Stories Decision Do It Yourself Saying Yes

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“There's a dance that happens with you and that's why I really like doing it with stunt men, because they know how to dance generally better than actors do. It is choreography and if you aren't used to doing it things can go wrong.”

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“The director sets the tone, and if someone's ruling it with an iron fist, people are quiet and the days go long in my experience, when there's a very serious tone, the days just drag. When there's someone who, in between takes, is joking or laughing the days go quick.”

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“I've lived almost, like, four completely different lives. (Stripping) was just one section - one little small section, if that - but it was a very interesting and turbulent but kind of wild ride and I'm not ashamed of it all. I think it's hilarious and I learned a lot about human nature.”

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“I was undervalued so I stopped stripping. I was 18 years old and I worked three jobs. This was just one of them, and I really enjoyed performing. It was probably my first performing job ever. I really like to dance, obviously, but then I didn't really love taking the clothes off at the end.”

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“Waxing was an interesting experience. Not quite as painful as I expected.”

Interesting Painful Expected Waxing

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“I talk different, I walk different, everything. I don't have one single bad memory [there]. Not one. It was my sanctuary. I hated school, wasn't good in school, and me and my dad butted heads about that. But nothing mattered when I went home to Alabama.”

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“If it wasn't for her literally doing my homework for me, I would not have even graduated high school. Guaranteed . . . My mom always said, 'Luck is nothing but preparation and opportunity.' I think because I've had that history of not really being great in school, I probably try to overcompensate. That's why I try to read so many books. Just so I don't feel . . . uneducated.”

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“I learned to dance at quinceañeras - big [15th] birthday parties for Spanish girls. It was always funny to bring the white guy out [on the floor] and let him look like a fool.”

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“I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.”

I Can Appreciate Tolerance Repetition

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“I see caring for somebody as a creative outlet. I like drawing little faces and writing little stories and hiding them in places. I don't think it's that hard to be thoughtful, especially when you do care about the person.”

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“I've never protected the president [in real life], but I have been a new dad, and I can tell you that being a new dad is pretty terrifying. I'm pretty sure that something about the president makes the stakes a little higher, but to me as a new father, nothing is more important or scary than protecting a daughter.”

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“For a time, it would work well. then it worked less and my pain was more. I would go through wild bouts of depression, horrible comedowns. I understand why kids kill themselves. I absolutely do. You feel terrible. You feel soul-less. "I'll never do it to my child".”

Feels Wells Children Soul Kids Pain Terrible Horrible My Children

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“Sometimes a thong completely betrays you.”

Sometimes Betray Thongs

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“Someday you'll miss her like she missed you. Someday you'll need her like she needed you. Someday you'll love her and she won't love you.”

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“I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.”

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“I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.”

People Ifs Knows Fun Wish Complicated Having Fun Intricate

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“I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.”

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“I used to work at a puppy nursery.”

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“I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.”

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“I've always had way too much energy so I'm always looking for new things to do to channel that energy.”

Way Energy Too Much Things To Do New Things

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“Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.”

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“My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.”

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“I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.”

People Causes Creative Creative People Weird People

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“Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle.”

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“Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.”

Lasts Tradition Stealing Costumes Last Day

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“But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.”

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“But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing up in the South, a mumble is a way of speaking.”

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About the Author

Born: April 26, 1980
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 145

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